World's Toughest Fixes Season 1

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1x01 Nuclear Turbine aired Sep 29, 2008

Sean Riley puts on his radiation suit and heads into the radiation zone for his next tough fix, replacing a steam turbine in a nuclear power plant to boost i... read more

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1x02 Boeing 767 aired Sep 28, 2008

Sean Riley joins a team of engineers and mechanics as they attempt to fix a damaged Boeing 767 jet. This is a crucial fix—taking a jet apart and putting it b... read more

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1x03 High-Voltage Power Lines aired Sep 05, 2008

Sean Riley joins an elite corps of engineers who dangle from a helicopter and work with live power lines carrying a shocking 500,000 volts of electricity.

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1x04 Thirty-Eight Ton Engine aired Oct 08, 2008

Sean Riley helps swap out a 38-ton engine on one of the largest ships in the Gulf of Mexico. The fix must be done in the middle of the gulf—and with swells, ... read more

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1x05 Giant Telescope aired Oct 15, 2008

For this tough job, Sean Riley joins a team of engineers to move and clean a 27-foot, 23-ton, $15 million telescope mirror. Here, three telescopes are used t... read more

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1x06 2,000 Foot Tower aired Nov 26, 2008

Sean Riley works to fix a faulty TV antenna nearly half a mile in the air. This extreme fix takes strength, teamwork and guts.

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1x07 Cruise Ship Engine aired Dec 03, 2008

Go on a cruise. They said: In the Bahamas. Itll be a lot of fun, They promised. Mid ocean in the Caribbean, its a race against time. This may be Paradise, bu... read more

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1x08 50-Ton Rudder aired May 25, 2009

Riley joins a team of industrial divers on the Caribbean island of Curacao to salvage and repair the 50-ton rudder of a ship carrying $3 million worth of iro... read more

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